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CDC of Upstate New York Inc at a glance

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CDC of Upstate New York Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$556kFood & Nutrition$100kCommunity Improvement$7kPublic Benefit$6kReligion$5kArts & Culture$3kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$586k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ROCHESTER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$7,380
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW YORK KITCHEN: $100k → 10%MEDINA RAILROAD MUSEUM: $3k → 11%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $40k → 14%NYS TROOPERS: $6k → 14%MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%IRONDEQUOIT UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5k → 14%ROCHESTER INDUSTRIES EDUCATIONAL FUND: $150k → 14%ROCHESTER INDUSTRIES EDUCATIONAL FUND: $138k → 14%ROCHESTER INDUSTRIES EDUCATIONAL FUND: $75k → 14%ROCHESTER INDUSTRIES EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50k → 14%GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5k → 14%VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL: $35k → 14%CDS WOLF FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ROCHESTER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education
2
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
3
Rochester General College of Health Careers

The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.

Education
4
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
5
Rochesterworks Inc

The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.

Employment
6
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer educates the leaders of tomorrow for technologically based careers. We celebrate discovery and the responsible application of technology to create knowledge and global prosperity.

Education
7
University of Rio Grande

The university of rio grande/ rio grande community college is america's unique private/public institution of higher education designed to provide learners the opportunity to attain a high-quality, high-value education. our personalized,…

Education
8
Roberts Wesleyan University

As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.

Education
9
One Roc Inc

The company's mission is to create new jobs, increase regional wealth, raise regional gdp and enhance opportunity; to invest in a world-class economic development ecosystem where incumbent businesses are thriving, new firms are locating,…

Community Improvement
10
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
Red Lake Nation College

To provide excellent higher education that is grounded in the ojibwe language and culture of the red lake nation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Rochester. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $462,500 · EducationGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INCRochester Institute of Technology: $40,000 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL+1 more: $5,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionTHE NEW YORK STA…MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIRONDEQUOIT UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5,000 · OtherRochester Downtown Development Corporation: $7,380 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $6,220 · Public BenefitMedina Railroad Museum: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCDS WOLF FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Health
Education$542,500Food & Nutrition$100,000Other$24,500Community Improvement$7,380Public Benefit$6,220Arts & Culture$3,000Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $462,500 over 6y, 23% of budgetTHE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $6,220 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedina Railroad Museum: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCDS WOLF FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Summers Foundation IncMax and Marian Farash…Esl Charitable Founda…Rochester Area Commun…Wegman Family Charita…
Summers Foundation IncNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Summers Foundation Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Wegman Family Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization CDC of Upstate New York Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from CDC of Upstate New York Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to CDC of Upstate New York Inc?

    Find your warmest path to CDC of Upstate New York Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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